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| Fri 11 Jun 2021 in Berlin: 52.6035520, 13.1620612 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
This Geohash is located on a field next to a canal in Nieder Neuendorf.
Participants
Expedition
2021/06/11-06.00
My alarm goes off the first time. I ignore it.
2021/06/11-07.00
My second alarm goes off. Ignorance still.
Until around 07.30 I linger, tempted to let my sleepiness win, but I know this time I can't go back to sleep; I have an appointment. I'm getting vaccinated.
2021/06/11-08.05
With only my face washed and the same clothes that I wore yesterday, I enter the doctor's praxis. And after I signed a couple of sheets that are supposed to warn me about the dangers of vaccination, the doctor finally calls my name. She remembers me, what surprises me a little. But then again, it's not too extraordinary that someone remembers you when you've only visited them the day before. After a little chitchat, she gives me the shot. And off I go. Freedom from the virus finally (or maybe hopefully, rather).
2021/06/11-09.00
I'm sitting in my kitchen, eating oatmeal, chatting with my mother on the phone. She tells me all about how I should rest for the day. "The vaccination really kicks ass, you know." (She doesn't actually talk like that.) I disagree, but of course I can't tell her that. My brother told me about an epic geohash in my area. Of course I have to go. So I tell her: "Yeah, I'll definitely take it easy today", even though I wasn't planing on it. But after the horror stories my neighbour told me about his vaccination (hallucinations, dreams of his hands being intertwined with one another, dizziness and headaches to high heavens), I'm a little unnerved. Being in the middle of a four hour bike ride and all of a sudden feeling my hands slowly morphing into each other is the last thing I want. So I actually listen to my mother and grant myself a couple episodes of Miraculous Ladybug. After that is sleep fore a few hours, 'till–
2021/06/11-15.00
At this point I've spent almost all day inside and haven't felt dizzy for a second. Maybe she only gave me a shot of sodium chloride solution, I think. I got the appointment surprisingly fast. Probably just the standard paranoia I get sometimes. Nothin to worry about. After a li'l snack I hit the road at–
2021/06/11-16.10
It has been 27°C outside for days (hot for German standards). As soon as I enter the street I start sweating. The sun beats down on me. The concrete sucks up all the heat and radiates it back. I'm in the middle of a greenhouse oven here. The nav says 1 hour to go. Well, nice trick, but I know I gotta apply the Berlin traffic multiplication factor of 1.7. Time to get going.
2021/06/11-17.50
I'm finally there – or rather as close a I can get. Google Maps tells me that there is a gap of 30 meters between me and the hash. And these 30 meters, unfortunately, consist of a jungle of fern and a 10 meter wide canal, that looked far smaller on GM, so small indeed that I thought I could easily jump it. There is also no way to get there from the other side, for the only bridge that goes over the canal is marked as private property and an electrical fence goes along the entire opposite bank anyway. Can't let the horses get out.
2021/06/11-18.10
I accept my defeat and make myself on the way back home. At first I planned to take the same rout back that I've come, but then one the the infamous cyclist guide signs, that can be found all over Germany, catches my eye. It says "Spandau", just where I need to go on the way back to my apartment. So I follow the sign. It takes me along the "Berlinermauerweg" – the Berlin Wall path. It takes me an embarrassingly long time to fully understand the meaning of the name of this path that goes along the border of Brandenburg and western Berlin.
2021/06/11-19.40
I enter my apartment and my whole skin tastes of salt. I want to take a shower immediately, but what is this? As soon as I go though the door: dizziness. And, my God, the headache. Guess it wasn't sodium chloride solution after all.
Photos
Near the Geohash
At Ameisenweg in Spandau
Achievements
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Jan earned the Done with Nature consolation prize
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